budget

     

Buget (from french bougette, purse) generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. A budget is an important concept in microeconomics, which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods. In other terms, a budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms.

Trivia about budget

  • 1-word name of the committee that sets the spending priorities that the Finance & Appropriation committees carry out
  • The subtitle for the frugal traveler blog is "seeing the world on" one of these, from the Latin for "money bag"
  • You might be on a "shoestring" one of these allotments of funds, from the Latin for "leather bag"
  • An itemized allotment of funds for a given period
  • In regional use, it can mean a wallet as well as a spending plan